This is a shame to see. I haven’t watched Jay recently because I feel like his content has kind of gone the Linus route of being more entertainment focused vs a channel like GN where they have very strict and regimented testing methodology. Even as entertainment though, I think this needelessly smears Bazzite. His experience is valid, but the conclusion being “the OS’s fault” or “Linux not being there yet” is kinda harmful. Yes, kernal level anti-cheat is a huge problem. But as a lifelong Windows user who myself converted last year and has not had to go back because all the games I want to play work, my experience has been that my games run better through Proton than they do natively on Windows. I hope there’s a followup at some point soon where he tries again with a fresh install on its own drive. Even if the reporting isn’t scientific (it doesn’t have to be), I would expect his experience to be better.

Absolutely true. I never bother to turn these options on if a game offers them because in the best case it doesn’t do a whole lot and in the worst case it makes the game look awful. I’d rather just play with real frames even if it means playing at a lower frame rate.